Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [been] used [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An accolade for Felix Schofield and Mrs Swan — I hear that photographs of posters done by them for Christian Aid have been used by the Church of Scotland 's Publicity Department as illustrations of an effective means of poster-design for communication . |
| 2 | Manometry , electromyography , and scintiscanning have been used in adults in the investigation of colon motility but only recently have these been extended to the study of paediatric patients . |
| 3 | Countless pieces of high tech electronic equipment have been used in the construction of the Taste Sensation sequence , which runs on a continuous programme and lets six new visitors in at two minute intervals . |
| 4 | Because multiple exemplars of each junction have been used in the previous studies this information would have been nearly identical in all six exemplars of each junction . |
| 5 | However in many cases it is doubtful whether these are anything other than the traditional wage system in a new disguise — for ‘ merit ’ , ‘ loyalty ’ and ‘ cooperation ’ , which are often tied to length of service have been used as major criteria for wage increases granted in this fashion … managements have not proceeded hastily towards full-blown wage rationalization because of their own concern with preserving worker identification with the enterprise … |
| 6 | But , if units of metal have been used as monetary values and in monetary transactions , what is the difference between a coin and a lump of metal ? |
| 7 | Heart rate and skin conductance have been used as measures of arousal , and unusually high levels have been reported ( e.g. Venables , 1964 ) . |
| 8 | One of two originally purchased by the late Frank Sanders , many parts from this ‘ Fury have been used in other rebuilds over the years . |
| 9 | Extracts from the croton have been used as fish poisons . |
| 10 | The fact of the child 's puzzlement is due to his being a victim of the way in which the dogmatic religions of the world have been used for child indoctrination , resulting in the perpetuation of the inherent superstitions and subsequent evils that have shamed religion throughout civilised time . |
| 11 | Both the video and the pieces of the 1:8 model have been used in London to create the sets , in which Hockney has used bright colours and strong abstract shapes to striking effect . |
| 12 | The ergot alkaloids given therapeutically in migraine have been used as a diagnostic test for coronary artery vasospasm , with a diffuse reduction in arterial diameter of about 30% evident in normal arteries . |
| 13 | These to date have been used in small quantities as chemical feedstock . |
| 14 | Tetracycline and erythromycin have been used for years , though minocycline is now increasingly considered as a preferable and safe alternative . |
| 15 | The Parkinson and Garman and Klass estimators of volatility have been used in a number of the empirical studies considered below , e.g. Grammatikos and Saunders ( 1986 ) , Chamberlain ( 1989 ) , Board and Sutcliffe ( 1990 ) and Serletis ( 1992 ) . |
| 16 | Family network meetings to help maintain the web of relationships sustaining a vulnerable elderly client have been used in Social Service practice ( Rawlings , 1988 ) . |
| 17 | This tuck stitch is easy to work on the Singer Big Nine and you can see from this sample that by working with a lighter shade for the background for the first four pattern repeats followed by a darker one for the background , similar amounts of yarn have been used over the same number of rows . |
| 18 | The recommendations of the Working Party have been used as the basis for financial allocations to the Health Service regions since 1977 . |